Advances in Gaming Hardware CSE 3541 Matt Boggus

Outline • Input • Output • Custom controllers

Motion tracking (Wii ) • Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii. Remote Image source: amazon. com

Geolocation • 5 geolocation games: http: //thenextweb. com /insider/2010/12/26/5 geolocation-games-totry-today/ Image source http: //blog. thesecurityawarenesscompany. co m/geolocation-picture-tagging-what-reallyhappens-when-you-upload-a-photo/

Leap Motion • https: //www. leapmotion. com/ • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Leap_Motion

Omni-directional treadmill ( Virtuix ) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=i. Ukja. NQl. ZO 8

Natural language input ( Xbox One voice commands ) Image source: http: //support. xbox. com/en-US/xbox-one/kinect/voicecommands? icid=furl_xboxone-kinect-speech-recognition

Speech detection • Given a sound wave as input, output symbols (letters or words) as text output – Different from natural language processing (given text as input, the computer derives its meaning) • Mostly simplifies to comparing sound wave pieces to known letters/words and estimating the probability of each possible match being correct

Video input and Computer Vision ( Kinect and Trackir ) • http: //channel 9. msdn. c om/Series/Kinect. Quicks tart • http: //www. naturalpoin t. com/trackir/products/ trackir 5/

Tablet controller (Wii U ) Image source: nintendo. com

Cross – device gameplay

Occulus Rift Dual display + head tracking http: //www. oculus. com/

Razer Hydra (Sixense) • http: //sixense. com/razerhydra • https: //www. youtube. com/user/sixensent/vid eos

Augmented Reality displays • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. H_Lf. Xn kl. Rw

Custom Controllers • Arduino – http: //www. arduino. cc/ – Teensy • https: //www. pjrc. com/teensy/

Arduino sensors http: //www. sainsmart. com/zen/albums/temp/ e/lance/20 -013/Expend. jpg

Creativity • It’s not the technology, but how you use it • How to be creative? – http: //petapixel. com/2014/10/20/john-cleeseshares-inspirational-speech-creative/